[The words are quiet and pained, soaked with regret - but he already knows they won't be enough, they don't feel like enough]
I didn't know immediately, I thought perhaps when the Garleans invaded Corvos that your parents might have sent you away to be safe, that you might have ended up with Maeve that way, but...
[He realises he's starting in the middle, talking in circles because he's still too scared to admit the truth. He shakes his head, annoyed with himself]
I'm sorry, I'm not making sense... I thought that might have happened because they sent your brother away first, because the Garleans were looking for Allagan relics and he... I...
[He looks up at her, slightly helplessly, motions vaguely to his eyes to try and explain what he was attempting to say, even though that's absolutely not the point and suddenly his words have dried up and he doesn't know how to continue]
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I'm sorry...
[The words are quiet and pained, soaked with regret - but he already knows they won't be enough, they don't feel like enough]
I didn't know immediately, I thought perhaps when the Garleans invaded Corvos that your parents might have sent you away to be safe, that you might have ended up with Maeve that way, but...
[He realises he's starting in the middle, talking in circles because he's still too scared to admit the truth. He shakes his head, annoyed with himself]
I'm sorry, I'm not making sense... I thought that might have happened because they sent your brother away first, because the Garleans were looking for Allagan relics and he... I...
[He looks up at her, slightly helplessly, motions vaguely to his eyes to try and explain what he was attempting to say, even though that's absolutely not the point and suddenly his words have dried up and he doesn't know how to continue]